1. A sociologist wants to study the effects (advantages and disadvantages) of group testing on individual performance, including its impact on how much is learned, learning rates, and retention.How would this researcher go about his/her study?What specific methods would be most effective and why?What are some potential problems this researcher should be aware of in conducting their research? 2. Explain the principles of reliability and validity, including what these terms refer to and why they are important tests for sociological investigation?How might one go about ensuring that a particular assessment is both valid and reliable? 3. Explain the difference between cause and effect and correlation.What is meant by a spurious correlation?Provide a hypothetical situation of EACH of these three concepts. 4. Explain how each of the following can shape research in a biased way, including an example of each:
Androcentricity (or gynocentricity)
Gender blindness
Double standards
Hawthorne effect
Ethnocentrism
5. Compare and contrast two (2) of the following methods of sociological research: experiment, survey, interview, participant-observation, and secondary analysis.Include advantages and limitations of each and a hypothetical situation in which each would be the more appropriate method of research.
2. Explain the principles of reliability and validity, including what these terms refer to and why they are important tests for sociological investigation? How might one go about ensuring that a particular assessment is both valid and reliable?
3. Explain the difference between cause and effect and correlation. What is meant by a spurious correlation? Provide a hypothetical situation of EACH of these three concepts.
4. Explain how each of the following can shape research in a biased way, including an example of each:
5. Compare and contrast two (2) of the following methods of sociological research:
experiment, survey, interview, participant-observation, and secondary analysis. Include advantages and limitations of each and a hypothetical situation in which each would be the more appropriate method of research.